I want to know more about her. According to Wikipedia:
“An onna-bugeisha was a female warrior. Members of the samurai class in feudal Japan, they were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honor in times of war.”
(Via Retronaut)
buy a copy of Shogun 2 on Steam today and it’s amazing!
A reader posted a link on the Retronaut site to the auction lot that this photo was in. Description reads “Portraits of Japanese Kabuki actors and geisha. 1870s.’ http://194.25.171.19/bassenge/en/lose.asp?c=O&lot=4058&pg=6&DET=1&im=2&XIL=10 (Though who knows whether the auction house description is accurate
There’s a new series that just started called yae no Sakura about a woman who learns to use a rifle in 1868.
Also in a quick Japanese search, I hit a woman named koto Nakagawa from the bakumatsu era.
Someone told me that that woman was called Tomoe Gozen. Epic story, I was told.
it still doesn’t negate the fact these women existed in Asia, contrary to the racist haolewood propaganda machine